The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

Architectural elements and building materials for this house were transported from Salisbury, England.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

Not one, but two of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpieces nestled on the same street.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.

The gravestones in this historic cemetery are carved with mysterious faces.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.